La Liga have lodged a complaint against Paris Saint-Germain with the European Commission, the League have announced.
The Spanish Premier League claim that PSG’s Qatari ownership distorts the European Union’s internal market and goes against EU regulations. This complaint comes after PSG announced the signing of Ousmane Dembele from La Liga club FC Barcelona, without it being known if there is a link between the two.
La Liga president Javier Tebas hasn’t mince words about what he sees as unfair mechanisms that allow clubs and leagues to have an unfair advantage over their counterparts.
A few days ago, Tebas said he was convinced that “the Premier League and Saudi Arabia are ruining the transfer market”, while claiming that the English Premier League is not financially viable and that the millionaire and billionaire owners distort competition.
Today, La Liga filed a complaint against PSG.
What does La Liga blame?
” In response to the new political orientation stemming from the implementation of the European regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (…), LALIGA has lodged a complaint with the European Commission concerning the financing mechanisms of the PSG, which seriously distort the internal market of the European Union (EU), the league wrote on its website.
“This Regulation… concerns foreign subsidies granted by non-EU Member States to undertakings carrying out an economic activity within the internal market, taking into account those granted by public undertakings which are, directly or indirectly, controlled by a State, including subsidies granted during a period of five years preceding the entry into force of the regulation”.
“As a result, LALIGA filed a complaint alleging that PSG received foreign subsidies from the State of Qatar, which enabled it to improve its competitive position, thus generating significant distortions in several national and international markets. EU.”
